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BULLETIN 628, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
it was that the pasture probably was better than that provided for 
the others. Division " b " of Lot 1, the cake-finished cattle, in 127 
days made a total gain of 344 pounds, or an average daily gain of 
2.71 pounds. Lot 2. division " a," containing the grass steers, made a 
total gain of 368 
pounds per steer, or 
an average daily 
gain of 2.63 pounds. 
Lot 2. division " b," 
containing the grass 
and cake fed steers, 
made a total gain 
per steer of 401 
pounds, or an aver- 
age daily gain of 
3.15 pounds. Lot 3, 
containing the 
grass-fed steers, 
made a total gain of 367 pounds per steer, or an average daily gain of 
2.62 pounds. Lot 4, containing the winter-grazed steers, made, on 
grass alone during the summer, a total gain of 345 pounds per steer, 
or an average daily gain of 2.46 pounds. These steers, as in previous 
Fig. 5.- 
-Cattle at beginning of summer fattening on pasture 
and cottonseed cake, 1914. 
Fig. 6. — The same steers (shown in fig. 5) when finished in August, 1914. 
years, made larger gains from fall to fall than any of the other cattle. 
However, all the steers in the four lots made good gains during the 
summer. 
The third section gives the total and daily gains on the 1916 work. 
This was an unusually good year from the standpoint of the gains 
